Global FCC Advisory Associate

We are the consulting division of Davies, accelerating business, technology and people performance across financial services including banking, asset and wealth management, insurance and other highly regulated industries.

We are currently seeking a Global Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Advisory Associate to join our team on a 6-month contract with likelihood of a permanent role being offered thereafter. The successful individual can be located anywhere in Europe.

The opportunity:
Our client is a major Tier 1 bank with offices throughout Europe. They require a Global FCC Advisory Associate to initially be employed by Davies - Consulting and outsourced to them on a 6-month contract basis. There is an opportunity for the role to become permanent and transition to direct employment with the client once the 6-month contract has been completed.

As a Global Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Advisory Associate, you will support consistent implementation of the FCC framework, strategy and risk appetite across global corporate and investment banking units for our client. You will support the provision of advice to the first and second lines of defence ensuring appropriate financial crime risk management and compliance with global policies. Reporting to the Global Head of FCC Policy & Framework, this role will support the execution of a robust financial crime framework in line with business expansion strategy.

In this role you will:

• Provide advice to first and second line teams on policy application for all business lines including markets, debt financing, corporate financing and transaction banking;
• Support due diligence on clients and transactions escalated due to financial crime concerns;
• Support submission to global forums including due diligence and preparation of materials;
• Provide guidance and support to CIB units on risk management of pipeline transactions across business lines;
• Support holistic assessments of client, transaction, geographical and product risk
• Support units in complying with FCC Policies and Standards
• Contribute towards enhancing global FCC policies and framework;
• Support creation of financial crime training material.

Key Accountabilities:

• Leads by example in holistic assessment and management of financial crime risks across clients, transactions, products/services and geographies.
• Develops strong relationships with teams across first and second lines of defense to ensure proactive and consistent financial crime risk management.
• Maintain good working relationships with first and second line teams across CIB
• Serve as a leader for quality of assessments and pragmatic recommendations.
• Support business strategy and risk appetite by providing sound and timely advice and recommendations.

Technical Competencies:

• Demonstrates awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the firm operates
• Anticipates future market trends and uses to inform strategy
• Demonstrates awareness and understanding of our client's business strategy and model and translates vision into priorities and direction
• Critically challenges and analyses business propositions to help others explore opportunities and generate initiatives
• Understands customer landscape and importance of Treating Customers Fairly to business strategy
• Identifies, assesses, manages and reports risks within own business area and across our client
• Demonstrates an awareness and understanding of the main risks facing business area and their role in managing them
• Carries out appropriate contingency planning and balances risk impact with delivery of business as usual
• Promotes and embeds risk awareness within area of responsibility and wider organisation
• Specific Risk and Control Function Roles (Roles in Line 2)
• Regarded as expert and source of risk management excellence within their area of responsibility
• Shapes risk frameworks and/ policies using external knowledge and benchmarking
• Demonstrates the ability to assess the effectiveness of our client's arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and oversees changes when required
• Ensures new business opportunities reflect appropriate governance and regulatory control.
• Demonstrates awareness and understanding of the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to their role
• Ensures that business and financial affairs are managed with diligence and integrity for the benefit of shareholders, customers and employees in compliance with relevant regulatory frameworks and regulation
• Demonstrates the ability to interpret our client's financial information, identify key issues and put in place controls and measures to mitigate
• Takes strategic view of link between data management and organisational performance

Behavioural Competencies:

• Works to generate a compelling vision that is shared both internally throughout our client's group and externally
• Develops and communicates our client's values through their activities and every day behaviour
• Acts as a reference point and role model for Group values within the organisation and externally with customers and the market
• Supports the decisions that benefit the entire organisation even where these are unpopular or in conflict with the best short term interests of their own work setting
• Anticipates and generates new perspectives and ideas that resolve problems and take advantage of opportunities in the mid term
• Applies learning around methods and concepts regarding markets, products or services
• Thinks big in establishing stretching and ambitious goals around performance excellence
• Commits significant resources, effort and time to activities that increase goals
• Sets high expectations and generates enthusiasm and commitment to team goals and activities
• Enhances team cohesion and confidence in respect of the team goals and activities
• Promotes corporate initiatives and practices that develop and retain talent and that cover key positions within the Group
• Promotes the exchange and development of knowledge and experience within the Group; encouraging others to act as a coach, mentor, trainer or project tutor
• Leads the development of a culture focused upon providing an excellent quality service to clients
• Understands the customer landscape and promotes 'Treating Customers Fairly' principles
• Challenges the accepted boundaries of excellent customer and client service; seeking new ways to work with clients and strengthen relationships in the long term
• Focuses the organisation's resources and processes towards exceeding client's expectations
• Behaves ethically in line with the Group's code of conduct and other regulatory frameworks
• Demonstrates integrity, strong values, due skill, care and diligence when making independent judgments about what is right and wrong
• Takes a long term view: shows outstanding skills for identifying future opportunities and scenarios
• Promotes and embeds a risk awareness culture within area of responsibility and our client.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Educated to Degree level in a relevant subject is desirable
• Qualification in Financial Crime (e.g. from ACAMS or ICA) is desirable
• Proven experience in Financial Crime Compliance roles in financial institutions with an international client-base is a must
• Strong knowledge of corporate and investment banking products and associated financial crime risks is a must
• Strong stakeholder management with good written, verbal and influencing skills is a must
• Previous experience drafting and/or inputting into policies is desirable

About Us

What's important to you is what matters to us...
We are straight-forward, adaptable and outcomes-focused. We build affinity, work with integrity and we always do what is right for our clients
Our core principles of Expertise, Leadership and Teamwork underline the Davies values of:

• We are connected
• We are dynamic
• We are innovated
• We succeed together

We live these values by ...

• Caring for the health and well-being of our colleagues
• Increasing diversity and inclusion within our workforce
• Encouraging and accommodating flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Creating a culture centred on interesting, complex, and challenging work and celebrating success
• Enjoying a fun, friendly, supportive, and sociable team-based environment
• Supporting performance driven career progression and providing access to professional skills enhancement via internal learning programs
• Recognising and celebrating the individual contributions of our colleagues
• Championing autonomy and empowerment of all our colleagues

And if that wasn't enough...

• Rewarding success and hard work!

We offer a competitive basic salary and annual bonus based on performance.

Benefits package includes:

• Private healthcare via Sanitas
• Lunch vouchers via Edenred
• Flexible remuneration plan
• Online discount platform
• Competitive employee referral program
• Generous annual leave plan

Inclusion and Diversity
Our Approach - At Davies we welcome different perspectives, support each other's ambitions, and grow together. We work to build an Inclusive Culture where everyone can succeed.
We value the differences and benefits that a diverse workforce brings to the business. We do not discriminate on the grounds of any differentiating factor and embrace the differences which make people unique.
Actioned through - Davies colleagues will deliver DEI though both local and global actions. It is recognised that different geographies have different cultures, employment legislation and hold alternative views. At Davies, we are committed to building an Inclusive Culture through DEI, and we are respectful of opposing views held to the company's position.